Coast Guard medevacs Navy sailor off of U.S.S. Kidd in Straits of Juan de Fuca

Mar 4th, 2018 · Comments Off on Coast Guard medevacs Navy sailor off of U.S.S. Kidd in Straits of Juan de Fuca

Lt. Joe Brewan, the supply officer and the helicopter control tower operator aboard the U.S.S. Kidd, watches a Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin helicopter, from Air Station Port Angeles land on the bow of the ship in order to conduct a medevac of a sick Navy sailor, March 4, 2018. U.S. Navy photo by Ensign Selby Arnold.

PORT ANGELES, Wash. — The Coast Guard conducted a medical evacuation of a sick Navy sailor aboard the U.S.S. Kidd, which was transiting the Straits of Juan de Fuca, Sunday afternoon.

The sailor was picked up by an aircrew aboard an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter from Coast Guard Air Station Port Angeles and flown to Naval Air Station Whidbey Island where they were met by emergency medical services and transported to Island General Hospital for further care.

Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound received the medevac request from the command of the U.S.S. Kidd, a Naval destroyer homeported in San Diego, at 1:44 p.m. The Port Angeles aircrew arrived on scene at 3:20 p.m. and landed aboard the ship to pick up the sailor.

The sailor, a 23-year-old male, was in stable condition at the time of transport.